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“Even Mice Can Roar” - En analys av Alliance of Small Island States inflytande i internationell klimatpolitik med fokus på det långsiktiga temperaturmålet.

Herrström, Alice LU (2019) STVK02 20182
Department of Political Science
Abstract
This thesis aims at analyzing Alliance of Small Island States’ influence and leverage in international climate negotiations with the purpose of widening the understanding of power relations and structures in international climate politics. The theoretical framework for the paper is Pierre Bourdieu’s theory on symbolic capital and the thesis studies Alliance of Small Islands States part in the process of negotiating an ambitious long-term temperature goal in the Paris agreement with the hypothesis that Alliance of Small Island States procured and exercised symbolic power in that process. The result of the analysis shows that AOSIS thus hold some amount of symbolic capital but the power structures in the global climate regime is still in... (More)
This thesis aims at analyzing Alliance of Small Island States’ influence and leverage in international climate negotiations with the purpose of widening the understanding of power relations and structures in international climate politics. The theoretical framework for the paper is Pierre Bourdieu’s theory on symbolic capital and the thesis studies Alliance of Small Islands States part in the process of negotiating an ambitious long-term temperature goal in the Paris agreement with the hypothesis that Alliance of Small Island States procured and exercised symbolic power in that process. The result of the analysis shows that AOSIS thus hold some amount of symbolic capital but the power structures in the global climate regime is still in favor of economic capital. (Less)
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author
Herrström, Alice LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVK02 20182
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), internationell klimatpolitik, långsiktigt temperaturmål, Pierre Bourdieu, symbolisk makt
language
Swedish
id
8965259
date added to LUP
2019-03-21 10:00:11
date last changed
2019-03-21 10:00:11
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  abstract     = {{This thesis aims at analyzing Alliance of Small Island States’ influence and leverage in international climate negotiations with the purpose of widening the understanding of power relations and structures in international climate politics. The theoretical framework for the paper is Pierre Bourdieu’s theory on symbolic capital and the thesis studies Alliance of Small Islands States part in the process of negotiating an ambitious long-term temperature goal in the Paris agreement with the hypothesis that Alliance of Small Island States procured and exercised symbolic power in that process. The result of the analysis shows that AOSIS thus hold some amount of symbolic capital but the power structures in the global climate regime is still in favor of economic capital.}},
  author       = {{Herrström, Alice}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{“Even Mice Can Roar” - En analys av Alliance of Small Island States inflytande i internationell klimatpolitik med fokus på det långsiktiga temperaturmålet.}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}